Create multiple .WAR files with different dependencies in Gradle

Question

I am using the war plugin to generate a simple .WAR file for my project in gradle. I\'d like to know how to configure gradle so that I can create 4 different .WAR files wit

Answer 1

I got a bit confused on how many WAR distributions you are actually trying to build. You can easily modify it to create additional WAR files. Here's one approach to make this happen:

task createStandardWar(type: War, dependsOn: classes) {
    baseName = 'standard'
    destinationDir = file("$buildDir/dist")
}

task createStandardWarQasOnly(type: War, dependsOn: classes) {
    baseName = 'standard-qas-only'
    destinationDir = file("$buildDir/dist")
    classpath = war.classpath.minus(files('/lib/axis1-1.4.jar','/lib/axis2-kernel-1.3.jar','/lib/dom4j-1.6.1.jar','/lib/log4j-1.2.14.jar'))
}

task createStandardWarQasAndLog4J(type: War, dependsOn: classes) {
    baseName = 'standard-qas-log4j'
    destinationDir = file("$buildDir/dist")
    classpath = war.classpath.minus(files('/lib/axis1-1.4.jar','/lib/axis2-kernel-1.3.jar','/lib/dom4j-1.6.1.jar'))
}

task createDists(dependsOn: [createStandardWar, createStandardWarQasOnly, createStandardWarQasAndLog4J])

This build script excerpt creates three different WAR files by declaring enhanced tasks of type War. It assumes that you still want to have your compiled source files under WEB-INF/classes within the WAR files so I didn't remove it from the classpath. The distributions end up in the directory build/dist. The task createDists creates all of them.